French vs Austrian - Shako II rules

I had been dabbling in various sets of Napoleonic rules, such as General de Brigade, Principles of War, Black Powder (1 game, although I was always drawn back to Shako, so when the new set of rules for Shako II came out I bought a set and here was our first game with the new set. I believe they were published in 2008, but I did not get my set until 2016, considering the last time we played was about two or even three years before that using Shako I, the rules came back pretty quickly. Not many pics, enjoying it to much!


The D4s are Div nos. The D6s you see are Div Initiative dice.We used a couple of "pick up" armies from the rules, 1809 I think

The counters are Blue/ yellow= Staggered. Green/ White = Artillery fired this turn. Red = Failed Volley and Fallback. Green on cav = Blown.

Deployment. We both decided against better judgement to use 5 Divisions each. In doing this we were taking Div Morale at losing 2 units!


French Cav Div (Right Flank)


1st, 2nd and reserve Divs (Center)


3rd Div (Left Flank)


Austrian Right


Austrian Center


Austrian Left


Initial Moves


One of the central French divs move in!


French 2nd Div one move away from contact.


French left getting staggered by artillery


Lots of Cav Melees


Center, sees the Austrians starting to buckle


French 2nd divs Elite punch a hole in the enemy's line!


French 3rd div taking on Austrian left.


The end game finished with the Austrian center starting to buckle with divisional morale test causing 2 demoralised divisions,
I have a lot more games to add soon.